| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 483 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Instrumentation and analytical methods -- Immunoassay platform and designs -- Pre-analytical variables -- Laboratory statistics and quality control -- Water, homeostasis, electrolytes, and acid-base balance -- Lipid metabolism and disorders -- Carbohydrate metabolism, diabetes, and hypoglycemia -- Cardiac markers -- Endocrinology -- Liver diseases and liver function tests -- Renal function tests -- Inborn errors of metabolism -- Tumor markers -- Therapeutic drug monitoring -- Interferences in therapeutic drug monitoring -- Drugs of abuse testing -- Challenges in drugs of abuse testing: magic mushrooms, peyote cactus, and designer drugs -- Testing for ethyl alcohol (alcohol) and other volatiles -- Common poisonings including heavy metal poisoning -- Pharmacogenomics -- Hemoglobinopathy -- Protein electrophoresis and immunofixation -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis testing -- Autoimmunity, complement, and immunodeficiency -- Effect of herbal supplements on clinical laboratory test results |
| Summary |
All pathology residents must have a good command of clinical chemistry, toxicology, immunology, and laboratory statistics to be successful pathologists, as well as to pass the American Board of Pathology examination. This book presents core topics and detailed case studies that illustrate the application of clinical chemistry knowledge to everyday patient care and offers practical examples of how things function in the pathology clinic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (ScienceDirect, May 7, 2019) |
| Subject |
Clinical chemistry.
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Clinical chemistry -- Case studies
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Quality control.
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Clinical Chemistry Tests -- methods
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Immunologic Tests -- methods
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Quality Control
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Clinical Laboratory Services -- standards
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Chemistry, Clinical
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quality control.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Quality control
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Clinical chemistry
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wahed, Amer, author.
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| LC no. |
2014395458 |
| ISBN |
9780124079359 |
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0124079350 |
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